[sbisker]

It sounded like if you are captured you are paid a dollar a day until you are released or can escape - but can't collect pay while "running away". It seemed unclear whether that was in lieu of normal pay or in addition to it.

I imagine it was worded this way so someone couldn't just be "escaping" for an unknown length of time and just disappear - removes the incentive to not return right away. Still, I'm not how anyone would be able to prove or disprove which day he escaped in the first place - not like his captors gave him a receipt - so the whole thing is pretty goofy.

[jrimbault]

It would make for a good Monty Python skit. A calm German officer behind a desk giving "escape receipt" to a giddy British soldier.

[vidarh]

Hogan's Heroes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogan%27s_Heroes

It'd fit well - they kept trying to escape, and it'd have been easy enough to have a plot where they talk the camp commander into giving them a "fake" receipt in return for a favour, only for them to actually escape (and of course get caught again).

[rosser]

I think your comment's parent was asking about what happens to your regular military pay, during your time as a PoW. That's what I read, anyway.

[dogma1138]

You keep getting it (at a different rate), you also keep getting it when you are declared MIA. You only stop getting paid when you are declared dead (or discharged), the former awards survivor benefits to your next of kin and or dependents.

http://myarmybenefits.us.army.mil/Home/Benefit_Library/Feder...